Perez should have won if he is more experience in taking this pressure and not running wide since he was way faster than Alonso in the end of the race say last 10 laps (not to blame him since it was his 1st time so close to win). Perez and his team made a great decision to use hard instead of intermediate and that's the main reason Perez was faster than Alonso at the end while Alonso's tires degradation was much worse than Perez.
Mercedes did the same thing of adopting hard tires and that's why MS was closing fast in the last 10 laps while losing pace in the beginning of last pit stop. If there is 2 more laps MS should have taken one more place up. The reason why MS was ahead of Rosberg is he was able to preserve the tires better and managed to have one less pit stop to compensate his unfortunate spin caused by the contact initiated by Grosjean. It was clear that MS preserved his tires while all 3 drivers behind him including Rosberg were closing him fast until he managed to barely keep up the pace with them in the last 5 laps before the last pit stop suddenly. From there on he was much faster than Rosberg until the end. MS showed a much better job than Rosberg while comparing light-for light. Merc really needs to improve the tire eater nature asap otherwise they will only show up in Qualify but not race. This year many mid-field teams are proved to challenge the front runners if condition is right. Exciting year then. |
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